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1) Flint Hills
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English
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The Kansas Flint Hills stretch across a dozen counties in the eastern half of the Sunflower State. The region boasts rolling hills covered in native grasses, including the tallgrass varieties unique to the area. Dubbed the "Great American Desert" by pioneers facing the prairie's vastness, the rich grassland became home to settlers pursuing ranching and farming enterprises. Images of America: Flint Hills presents over 200 historic images from a
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University Press of Kansas
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English
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This illustrated guide to Kansas ghost towns will delight travelers and armchair tourists alike. Organized by region, it tells the story of 100 towns that have either disappeared without a trace or are only "a shadowy remnant of what they once were." Fitzgerald chronicles each town's settlement, politics, colorful figures and legends, and eventual abandonment or decline. Ten maps and detailed intructions for finding each site are included.
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Mennonite Press
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2021
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English
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Memoris provides a foundational view of the history of worn-torn Greece, overlapped by the personal nuances of one family's response to the shame of illegitimacy in a male-dominated society more focused on hiding secrets than nuturing its children.
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[Publisher not identified]
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2020
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English
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Rachel Jane Robinson was a young American woman of German descent ready to step into marriage and a career when the Civil War exploded into her life. Her diary reflects rural and small-town life in Ohio as she copes with radical changes brought about by war, illness, and shifting roles. The diary was laboriously transcribed from the original, handwritten book by Elizabeth Long Palmer, a descendant of Rachel Jane Robinson. The work began as a family...
